Alyssa Farah, who served as Trump's Director of Strategic Communications, accused her former boss of using a racial "bullhorn" with his rant against "riggers".
        • esadatari@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          1 year ago

          i’d honestly like to remember it but i also don’t want to say it. not only is it racist, it’s fucking stupid.

          like the people that say libtards or magats, we get it. you don’t wike the bad peeepow. you godda caw dem bawd names so you can feew gewd.

          this is just a more fucking racist version of the stupidest childish playground tacitics of name calling that both sides of the isles’ idiots can’t help but say.

          that being said, gravy seals and meal team 6 are great and hilarious. it’s just stupid shit like democRAT. oh ho ho! it’s got rat in it? MY FUCKING FIVE YEAR-OLD NIECE COMES UP WITH MORE CREATIVE INSULTS.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      221·
      1 year ago

      I just don’t know why he doesn’t just come out and say it. Who does he think he’s fooling?

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
      25·
      1 year ago

      Several others are one off. (Not too defend them, but to make a stupid point about words.)

      Bob Igger (his last name. Do not just Google his last name at work.) Digger Figger (actual word) Gigger (again an actual word)

      Anyway, this is boring.

      Edit: it has come to my attention that done people are actually doing the “rhymes with” thing with cruel intent. (Not here, but elsewhere.) Just thought I would, sadly, point that out. Leaving this because it doesn’t matter anyway.

  • flossdaily@lemmy.world
    5310·
    1 year ago

    Eh … I’m not convinced.

    We have an inexhaustible supply of real and unambiguous crimes and other offenses that we can pin on him.

    I think it unnecessarily muddies the water to even bother with something this ambiguous.

    The guy is on trial for RICO charges, and in all likelihood will see seeing a 5-year prison sentence for ORGANIZED CRIME in trying to overthrow a lawful election.

    Let’s just keep talking about that. And these fact that we have it on tape that he was asking the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” exactly the number of votes Trump needed to overturn the election he lost.

    • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
      14·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I agree. trump is racist AF, we don’t need to strain and stretch to make him racist even in the event that he isn’t being 100% racist.

      • flossdaily@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        The RICO charge carries a mandatory 5 years that can’t be pardoned and can’t be paroled. And RICO is stunningly easy to get a conviction on. It was built to catch mob bosses who directed activity but didn’t get their hands dirty.

        Until the RICO charge, I didn’t think he’d see prison either… but now… looks pretty good.

  • fox2263@lemmy.world
    42·
    1 year ago

    Hah I thought it was for those that rigged (allegedly (falsely)) the election. A group of riggers. Who rig.

    How naive of me. This is worse

    • atticus88th@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 year ago

      I caught on to the use of “riggers” when I noticed it was only black election workers that they were going after.

    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
      45·
      1 year ago

      I’m having hard time believing it’s something other than just people who rig. Seems like the more likely explanation than him wanting to drop the most thinly veiled n-bomb possible and managing to make it clever too.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    I hate when people talk like this

    The fact that he’s introducing race into this prosecution surprises me, it’s disgusting, it’s textbook Donald Trump, but it comes as no surprise.

    So surprise or no?

  • ATQ@lemm.ee
    342·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure Trump is bright enough to use a dog whistle. He’s more of a shoot them in the middle of 5th avenue guy.

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Read the Georgia indictment, that dude was threatening people while sounding “crazy”, he’s not dumb.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    224·
    1 year ago

    He is racist, but not clever in any way, I think he meant a made up word in his bullshit accusation, I don’t think he was trying to be racist here.

    • snooggums@kbin.social
      122·
      1 year ago

      Someone else said it and he repeated it, or someone else wrote the tweet. It was absolutely intended to be racist.

    • Triple_B@lemmy.zipEnglish
      112·
      1 year ago

      Yall know rigger is a real word right? Like, I work with a group of people explicitly called riggers. They rig stuff up. Use cranes, chain falls, shit like that?

      Trump is using a dogwhistle though.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        91·
        1 year ago

        Yeah it’s also a common term in the bdsm community for people who like tying people up. But he definitely isn’t referring to them.

        Some people don’t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to dog whistles.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Fair point, but I guess I meant, it’s a word that doesn’t have a definition attached to it that has anything to do with how he used it.

  • eran_morad@lemmy.world
    2815·
    1 year ago

    He’s obviously racist AF, but I doubt this is a dog whistle. Guy is too fucking stupid and impulsive to attribute some kind of intent to his word vomit.

    • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      His word vomit is pulled from a very small bin of stuff that’s “worked” in the past. Now that he knows it works as a dog whistle, we’ll be hearing the word daily for the next 2 years, at least.

      • eran_morad@lemmy.world
        71·
        1 year ago

        For one thing, I would never agree to be his assistant, therefore ranking me orders of magnitude higher in observational capability than his former assistant.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    I live in a very protected part of the world. I once thought the N word was “No”, and that was why people hated it so much.

  • aaron_griffin@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    Ya know, the first time I read that I thought an aide must have swapped his N and R keys. But I was just making a little joke about it.

    • daisy lazarus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      What’s happened to them? They were so popular, and still would be if they kept releasing videos. Now it’s one or maybe two a year.

      Presumably they have other projects on the go. Anyone know what, exactly, their day jobs are?

      • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        NicePeter had a drug and alcohol addiction and only recently considered himself sober. He and the others intend to return to ERB, but yeah, that was kinda an issue that he needed to work through first.

      • Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        They went independent again a couple years ago, which is great for creative freedom but necessarily means they have fewer resources. I’m glad they’re taking their time though, if it helps them maintain a high level of quality. I did some googling and it does look like they’re actively working on at least one upcoming video, potentially up to five at once given past teasers. They’ve also got a side channel with interim content and a Patreon with a private Discord if you want to keep closer tabs.